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26 Advanced Digital Painting Tutorials To Greatly Elevate Your Art

With the advancement of tablet and computer technologies these years, digital painting industry has entered its brightest era where every bit of the artist’s idea is possible to be constructed in such a way that it can be improved or modified later, therefore saving up a lot of time and assets that could be dedicated to the better art. In short, digital painting is becoming more advanced, and epic as well.

But every journey of seeking epicness comes with the bloods and mastery. With the aim to heighten your digital painting skills in order to achieve more freedom and epicness to your art, today we highlight 26 extremely advanced digital painting tutorials for you to actually learn the advanced ways of creating mind blowing digital artworks, and it’s up to you to absorb these essences into your artistic veins and muscles!

So don’t let the chance created by the professional artists once again slips through your eyes, kick-start some tutorials and bring the renaissance to your artworks today!

Meanwhile, if you prefer to have more inspiration than tutorials, we offer a multitude of posts to enlighten your brain cells!

The Spanish Girl is a “making-of” tutorial that features the conceptualizing process, brushes and texture selection process, and few detailed explanation on certain art tricks. A great tutorial for you to observe the tricks and thoughts from the professional artist, David Munoz Velazquez.

It’s a truth that painting skin is one of the hardest tasks possible to the photorealistic painter, but this tutorial by ImagineFX will aid you to seek the art of achieving perfect skin through painting.

My favorite part of this tutorial is probably its deep content, such as “The tricky part is all that ‘in between’ stuff. Trying to capture the correct mood is important, as is making sure the concept comes through the final piece”. A tutorial with wisdomful explanation that you just can’t miss.

Inspired by the short story Call of Cthulhu, Giorgio Grecu will lay out his thoughts on bringing his imagination of the story scene into reality. A must-learn for every artist who wishes to create a heart-pounding scene!

Besides the painting tutorial, this workshop is also going to be the one that Leong Wan Kok shares some of the techniques that he has picked up in 12 years working as a professional artist, with more focus on texture and color, so don’t miss this precious one!

Dragon is a favorite subject of fantasy-styled digital painting, but creating a fresh and abstract one is always hard. With this tutorial Illustrator JS Rossbach will “show you how a popular fantasy theme can be viewed in an abstract way”.

Discover this ultimately detailed tutorial on forging ultimately powerful Unicron with the use of 2D and 3D production tools, and you will be one step closer to creating your own terrific boss character!

Often Matte Painting is required for the game environment concept art, especially the futuristic game. But you don’t create it from scratch, and this inspiring tutorial will get you know the secrets behind the magic!

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In the end, one simply has to fail again and again in order to achieve the mastery that unlocks more freedom and possibilities to his art. But thanks to these aspiring artists, they make the way to mastery less bloody and essentially easier. Embrace their tutorials, and next time you might be one who creates these solid tutorials!

I hope you’ve found your future artistic direction in these tutorials, but if you’ve found it in tutorials that are not included in this compilation, be sure to let us know! Thank you!